List of people executed in Washington

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Only five people have been executed by the state of Washington since the death penalty statute was reformed following the 1976 Supreme Court decisions. Capital punishment was declared unconstitutional by the Washington Supreme Court in 2018.

NameDate of ExecutionMethodCrimeGovernor
John ElfusJanuary 15, 1884murder of Dan Haggerty [1]
Jochin Henry TimmermanApril 6, 1888murder of William Sterling [2]
Edward GallagherJuly 11, 1890Hangingmurder of Lewis Marr [3]
Robert Thompson DayJune 3, 1892 Hanging murder of Thomas Beebe [4] Elisha P. Ferry
Charles BrooksSeptember 6, 1892murder of Christine Brooks [5]
Charles E. MeyersSeptember 30, 1895murder of Frank Sherry [6]
Charles AsimusJanuary 31, 1896murder of James Greenwood [7]
Richard H. StraubApril 26, 1897murder of Leo Lanterman [8]
Gin PongApril 30, 1897murder of Lee Tung [9] John Rankin Rogers
Jack LeonardMarch 25, 1898murder of Jacob Malquist [10]
George WebsterMarch 30, 1900murder of Lise C. Aspland [11]
Albert MichaudApril 6, 1900murder of Julia Meuret Michaud [12]
Martin Stickles January 25, 1901murder of William Shanklin, Cornelius Knapp and his wife
Eben L. BoyceAugust 9, 1901murder of Louise Bock Boyce [13]
Charles W. NordstromAugust 23, 1901murder of William Mason [14]
James G. GreenDecember 6, 1901murder of E. V. Benjamin [15]
William Alden SeatonJanuary 3, 1902murder of Dan Richards [16] Henry McBride
Lum You January 31, 1902murder of Oscar Bloom
Alfred HamiltonMay 23, 1902murder of David M. Woodbury [17]
James ChampouxMay 6, 1904murder of Lottie Brace [18]
Charles ClarkeSeptember 2, 1904murder of Leila Page [19]
Henry AraoJune 3, 1905murder of Sam Chong [20] Albert E. Mead
Frank Pasquale (WADOC lists name as Frank Pasqualie)September 15, 1905murder of Charles F. Gray [21]
Angus McPhailDecember 8, 1905murder of Fred Alderson [22]
William WhiteMarch 2, 1906murder of Matthew Murphy [23]
Simon BrooksApril 13, 1906 (WADOC lists date as May 13, 1906 while newspaper reports death as April 13)murder of Adolph Miller [24]
A.A. ArmstrongJune 8, 1906murder of Robert Patton [25]
Fred MillerMarch 22, 1907murder of Fred Dierk [26]
Jose Nicolos (WADOC lists name as Joe Niculas)April 16, 1909murder of George Brown and unnamed four-year-old [27] Marion E. Hay
Joseph Gauvitte(WADOC lists name as Joseph Gauviette)August 27, 1909murder of Mrs. Joseph Gauvitte [28]
Bud Barnes(WADOC lists name as Hezekiah Barnes)November 12, 1909murder of Anna Aldrich [29]
Richard QuinnMay 13, 1910murder of Mrs. Richard Quinn [30]
Frank BarkerJune 20, 1910murder of Ira Messinger [31]
William Frederick Jahns (WADOC lists name as Frederick William Johns)April 21, 1911murder of Agnes Jensen [32]
John SmithApril 1, 1921murder of James O'Brien, Volney L. Stevens, and W.T. Angle [33] Louis Folwell Hart
James MahoneyDecember 1, 1922murder of Kate Mooers Mahoney [34]
George WhitfieldJune 13, 1924murder of Anna Nosko [35]
Ralph WallerJune 27, 1924murder of Alfred Waldman and Ida Waldman [36]
Thomas WaltonDecember 12, 1924murder of S.F. Burt [37]
L.E. Mosely (WADOC lists name as L.E. Mosley)February 19, 1926murder of A.J. Comer [38] [39] Roland H. Hartley
Alfred Winters (WADOC also lists name as Albert Williams)May 27, 1927
Manuel LopezFebruary 15, 1928murder of Charles Markham [40]
Emmett BaileyAugust 10, 1928murder of Erma Skinner [41]
Wallace GainesAugust 31, 1928murder of Sylvia Gaines [42]
Luther BakerMarch 29, 1929murder of Lester Wood [43]
Preston Rae ClarkJuly 11, 1930murder of A.L. Bidwell [44]
Robert Lee WilkinsAugust 15, 1930murder of John W. Brooks [45]
Arthur Schafer (WADOC lists name as Arthur Schaffer)August 29, 1930murder of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kirk [46]
Archie Frank Moock (WADOC lists name as Archie Frank Much)September 12, 1930murder of Catherine Clark [47]
George MillerDecember 18, 1931murder of John Ivester [48]
Harold CarpenterApril 15, 1932murder of Peter Jacobson [49]
Walter Dubuc
Ollie Lee StrattonJuly 28, 1933murder of William Frawley [50] Clarence D. Martin
Ted BradleyMay 11, 1934murder of George Ikeda [51]
Byron MillerOctober 3, 1934murder of Marshal George Warring [52]
Hong YickJuly 19, 1935murder of Lee Wing Qmen [53]
Barney FlemingApril 3, 1936murder of La Belle Butler [54]
Glen R. Stringer (WADOC lists name as Glenn R. Stringer)May 29, 1936murder of Herbert Lee Caples [55]
Leo HallSeptember 11, 1936murder of Frank Flieder, Anna Taylor Flieder, Clifford Taylor, Eugene Chenevert, Margaret Chenevert, Magnus Jorden, and Ezra Bolcom [56]
Clifford HawkinsFebruary 23, 1938murder of Ernest Grimm and Floyd Grimm [57]
Claude H. RyanFebruary 25, 1938murder of S.R. Jackson [58]
Stanley KnappAugust 5, 1938murder of William E. Walker [59]
Joseph O'DonnellNovember 21, 1938murder of Trent A. Sickles and Theodore E. Stevens [60]
Bernhard LeuchAugust 4, 1939murder of Lena Leuch [61]
Paul ButtrySeptember 15, 1939murder of Hugh Warren [62]
Earl TalbottSeptember 18, 1939murder of W.E. McKinney [63]
Roy WrightOctober 6, 1939murder of John Dee Moore [64]
Ralph CarsonDecember 8, 1939murder of Lynwood Sproul [65]
Edward L. BouchardSeptember 6, 1940murder of Cyril Ables and Ralph Allinson [66]
Jack MarableOctober 4, 1940kidnapping and rape of Mrs. Emil Roloff [67] [68]
Arley Ovoyd LewisJanuary 30, 1941murder of Jack Avent [69] Arthur B. Langlie
Denzel DavisMarch 24, 1941murder of Harriet Arnold [70]
John Bruce AndersonNovember 14, 1941murder of David Johnson [71]
Chester MontgomeryMarch 19, 1943murder of Jessie Sellers [72]
Roy Willard JacobsApril 6, 1943murder of Chadwick Storem and Harry Storem [73]
Persia WilliamsSeptember 8, 1944murder of Joseph Romaglio [74]
Edward HeberlingDecember 8, 1944murder of Harriet Louise Lindstrom [75]
Joe BillSeptember 7, 1945murder of Irma Irene McGough [76] Monrad C. Wallgren
Joseph B. WesselJanuary 19, 1946murder of Mary Ann Wessel [77]
Woodrow Wilson ClarkFebruary 5, 1946murder of T.P. Dillon and Jane Staples [78]
John Henry ClarkJanuary 7, 1947murder of Sam Katz [79]
Jake Bird July 15, 1949murder of Bertha Kludt and Beverly Kludt [80]
Arthur Bruce PerkinsNovember 4, 1949murder of Mr. L.E. Jessup and Mrs. L.E. Jessup [81]
Wayne Leroy WilliamsNovember 18, 1949murder of Hallie Lucille [82]
Wayne Dale Odell (WADOC lists name as Wayne O'Dell)June 18, 1951murder of Harold Rogers [83] [84] Arthur B. Langlie
Grant Ellis RioDecember 10, 1951
Utah Eugene WilsonJanuary 3, 1953murder of JoAnn Dewey [85]
Truman Galilee Wilson
Artell Bernard Farley Jr.December 15, 1956murder of Flora McFarland [86]
Harvey John Collins December 3, 1957murder of Andrew Stolen Albert D. Rosellini
John Richard BrodersonJune 25, 1960murder of Harold Oster [87]
Joseph Chester SelfJune 20, 1963murder of Ralph A. Gemmill Jr.
Westley Allan Dodd January 5, 1993murder of Cole Neer, William Neer, and Lee Iseli Booth Gardner
Charles Rodman Campbell May 27, 1994murder of Renae Wicklund, Shannah Wicklund, and Barbara Hendrickson Mike Lowry
Jeremy Vargas Sagastegui October 13, 1998 Lethal injection murder of Kievan Sarbacher, Melissa Sarbacher, and Lisa Vera Acevado Gary Locke
James Homer Elledge August 28, 2001murder of Eloise Jane Fitzner
Cal Coburn Brown September 10, 2010murder of Holly Washa [88] Christine Gregoire
Sources: List of persons executed by the Washington State Department of Corrections since 1904. [89]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ "Elfus Hanged". The Washington Standard. January 18, 1884.
  2. ↑ "Jochin Henry Timmerman paid the extreme penalty...". The Washington Standard. April 13, 1888.
  3. ↑ Harger, Stover (September 15, 2013). "The 'hanging holiday' of 1890". The Columbian.
  4. ↑ "Execution At Kalama". The Spokesman-Review. June 9, 1892. Retrieved October 14, 2021.
  5. ↑ "George Webster is hanged for first-degree murder at Spokane County Courthouse on March 30, 1900". www.historylink.org. Retrieved 2021-10-14.
  6. ↑ "Chas. E. Meyers Hanged". The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. October 1, 1895.
  7. ↑ "Hanging at Kalama". The News Tribune. January 31, 1896.
  8. ↑ "Paid With His Life". Aberdeen Herald. April 29, 1897.
  9. ↑ "George Webster is hanged for first-degree murder at Spokane County Courthouse on March 30, 1900". www.historylink.org. Retrieved 2021-10-14.
  10. ↑ "The Wages of His Sin". Spokane Daily Chronicle. March 25, 1898.
  11. ↑ "George Webster is hanged for first-degree murder at Spokane County Courthouse on March 30, 1900". www.historylink.org. Retrieved 2021-10-13.
  12. ↑ "Pierce County Courthouse (Tacoma), 1893-1959" . Retrieved October 10, 2021.
  13. ↑ "Pierce County Courthouse (Tacoma), 1893-1959" . Retrieved October 10, 2021.
  14. ↑ "Charles W. Nordstrom is hanged on August 23, 1901, for the murder of William Mason near Cedar Mountain (King County)" . Retrieved May 6, 2020.
  15. ↑ "Last Words of Murderer". (December 07 1901). The Tacoma Daily Ledger, pp. 6.
  16. ↑ "Kills His Uncle and Wounds Four Others". (December 07 1900). The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, pp. 1.
  17. ↑ "Alfred Hamilton shoots and kills attorney David M. Woodbury in Anacortes on September 7, 1899". Washington State: HistoryLink. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
  18. ↑ "Washington State carries out its first execution on May 6, 1904". Washington State: HistoryLink. Retrieved February 28, 2014.
  19. ↑ "Ask for Rehearing". (May 4, 1904). The Seattle Times, pp. 2.
  20. ↑ "Pays His Penalty Bravely". (June 3, 1905). The Seattle Times, pp. 4.
  21. ↑ "Appeals Dismissed by Supreme Court". (May 26, 1905). The Seattle Times, pp. 4.
  22. ↑ "Fight Made for Man's Life". (July 19, 1905). The Seattle Times, pp. 3.
  23. ↑ "Mackintosh Says White Should Hang". (February 22, 1906). The Seattle Times, pp. 1.
  24. ↑ "Sentence of Death is Given Simon Brooks". (February 17, 1906). The Seattle Times, pp. 10.
  25. ↑ "Murderer Armstrong Sentenced to Hang". (April 16, 1906). The Seattle Times, pp. 2.
  26. ↑ "Fred Miller Hanged at State Penitentiary". (March 22, 1907). The Seattle Times, pp. 15.
  27. ↑ "Double Murderer Goes to his Doom". (April 16, 1909). The Seattle Times, pp. 8.
  28. ↑ "Wife Murderer Hanged". (August 27, 1909). The Seattle Times, pp. 25.
  29. ↑ "Murderer Forfeits Life on Gallows". (November 12, 1909). The Seattle Times, pp. 12.
  30. ↑ "Execution Bungled". (May 13, 1910). The Seattle Times, pp. 7.
  31. ↑ "Walks to Scaffold Laughing and Joking". (June 20, 1910). The Seattle Times, pp. 5.
  32. ↑ "Execution May Spoil Solution of Mystery". (April 13, 1911). The Seattle Times, pp. 10.
  33. ↑ "Captor of Slayer Honored by Mayor". (April 1, 1921). The Seattle Times, pp. 3.
  34. ↑ "Mahoney is Executed in Prison Yard for his Deed". (December 1, 1922). The Seattle Times, pp. 1.
  35. ↑ "Whitfield Hanged at State Penitentiary". (June 13, 1924). The Seattle Times, pp. 10.
  36. ↑ "Slayer Blames Divorce Evil on Way to Gallows". (June 27, 1924). The Seattle Times, pp. 5.
  37. ↑ "Thomas Walton Hanged at State Penitentiary". (December 12, 1924). The Seattle Times, pp. 24.
  38. ↑ "Seattle Slayer Pays Penalty on Gallows". (February 19, 1926). The Seattle Times, pp. 4.
  39. ↑ "Longview Slayer Hanged". (May 27, 1927). The Seattle Times, pp. 22.
  40. ↑ "Lopez Hanged at State Prison for Riparia Murder". (February 15, 1928). The Seattle Times, pp. 7.
  41. ↑ "Bailey is Hanged for Murder of Wife". (August 10, 1928). The Seattle Times, pp. 20.
  42. ↑ "Dawn Brings Message of Hanging". (August 31, 1928). The Seattle Times, pp. 1.
  43. ↑ "Luther is Hanged for Slaying of Clark Sheriff". (March 29, 1929). The Seattle Times, pp. 18.
  44. ↑ "Clark Goes to Gallows". (July 11, 1930). The Seattle Times, pp. 2.
  45. ↑ "Wilkins Dies for Slaying of Attorney". (August 15, 1930). The Seattle Times, pp. 2.
  46. ↑ "Shelton Logger is Hanged". (August 29, 1930). The Seattle Times, pp. 13.
  47. ↑ "Moock Hangs as Killer in Wedding Plot". (September 12, 1930). The Seattle Times, pp. 11.
  48. ↑ "Express Slayer Meets Death on State's Gallows". (December 18, 1931). The Seattle Times, pp. 21.
  49. ↑ "Man, Youth Pay Penalty on Gallows for Murder". (April 15, 1932). The Seattle Times, pp. 1.
  50. ↑ "Ollie Stratton, Port Townsend Slayer, Hangs". (July 28, 1933). The Seattle Times, pp. 28.
  51. ↑ "Ready to Kill". (May 11, 1934). The Seattle Times, pp. 6.
  52. ↑ "Ready to Kill". (October 3, 1934). The Seattle Times, pp. 17.
  53. ↑ "Seattle Tong Slayer Hanged". (July 19, 1935). The Seattle Times, pp. 32.
  54. ↑ "Meyers Studies Hanging Case". (April 3, 1936). The Seattle Times, pp. 15.
  55. ↑ "Reward Posted for Asserted Slayer". (May 29, 1936). The Seattle Times, pp. 2.
  56. ↑ "Last Minute Fight Made to Prevent Execution". (September 11, 1936). The Seattle Times, pp. 1.
  57. ↑ "State Executes Skagit Slayer". (February 23, 1938). The Seattle Times, pp. 9.
  58. ↑ "Deputy's Killer to Hang". (January 14, 1938). The Seattle Times, pp. 5.
  59. ↑ "Killer Hanged; Warns Others". (August 5, 1938). The Seattle Times, pp. 5.
  60. ↑ "O'Donnell Blames Frame-Up as he Calmly Goes to Death". (November 21, 1938). The Seattle Times, pp. 1.
  61. ↑ "Shelton Slayer Dies on Gallows". (August 4, 1939). The Seattle Times, pp. 16.
  62. ↑ "Doomed Slayer Hopes". (September 14, 1939). The Seattle Times, pp. 13.
  63. ↑ "Ranch-Slayer is Hanged, Calm to End". (September 18, 1939). The Seattle Times, pp. 7.
  64. ↑ "Young Killer, on Gallows, Warns Youth Against Crime". (October 6, 1939). The Seattle Times, pp. 11.
  65. ↑ "Clallam County Slayer Hanged". (December 8, 1939). The Seattle Times, pp. 9.
  66. ↑ "Slayer Hanged at State Prison". (September 6, 1940). The Seattle Times, pp. 5.
  67. ↑ "Kidnaper Hangs, Denouncing Troy". (October 4, 1940). The Seattle Times, pp. 10.
  68. ↑ "The State of Washington, Respondent, v. Jack Marable, Appellant" (June 22, 1940).
  69. ↑ "Slayer to Give Life Tomorrow at Walla Walla". (January 29, 1941). The Seattle Times, pp. 17.
  70. ↑ "David Dies for Killing Mother". (March 24, 1941). The Seattle Times, pp. 24.
  71. ↑ "John B. Anderson, Slayer, Is Executed". (November 14, 1941). The Seattle Times, pp. 15.
  72. ↑ "Man Hanged for Woman's Death". (March 19, 1943). The Seattle Times, pp. 2.
  73. ↑ "Jacobs Denies Slaying as He Dies on Gallows". (April 6, 1943). The Seattle Times, pp. 4.
  74. ↑ "Seattle Slayer Dies on Gallows". (September 8, 1944). The Seattle Times, pp. 13.
  75. ↑ "Heberling Dies for Girl Murder". (December 8, 1944). The Seattle Times, pp. 21.
  76. ↑ "Joe Bill, Child's Slayer, Hanged". (September 7, 1945). The Seattle Times, pp. 18.
  77. ↑ "Wessel is Hanged at Pen". (1947, January 17). Union-Bulletin.
  78. ↑ "Hatchet Slayer Dies on Gallows". (February 5, 1946). The Seattle Times, pp. 3.
  79. ↑ "Slayer Dies on Prison Gallows". (January 7, 1947). The Seattle Times, pp. 20.
  80. ↑ "Final Appeal Failing, Jake Bird is Hanged". (July 15, 1949). The Seattle Times, pp. 11.
  81. ↑ "Perkins Dies on Prison Gallows". (November 4, 1949). The Seattle Times, pp. 9.
  82. ↑ "Williams, Wife Slayer, Hanged". (November 18, 1949). The Seattle Times, pp. 37.
  83. ↑ "Clemency Denied Condemned Youth". (June 14, 1951). The Seattle Times, pp. 14.
  84. ↑ "Slayer is Denied Stay of Execution". (December 10, 1951). The Seattle Times, pp. 2.
  85. ↑ "Langlie Refuses to Stop Execution of Wilsons, Due Tonight". (January 2, 1953). The Seattle Times, pp. 1.
  86. ↑ "Farley, Tacoma Slayer, Hanged". (December 15, 1956). The Seattle Times, pp. 3.
  87. ↑ "Broderson Hanged at State Prison". (June 25, 1960). The Seattle Times, pp. 11.
  88. ↑ Sullivan, Jennifer (September 10, 2010), "Killer on death row 16½ years is executed", The Seattle Times, retrieved 16 December 2017
  89. ↑ "Persons Executed Since 1904 in Washington State" (PDF). Washington State: Department of Corrections. Retrieved January 27, 2017.

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